Conflicts in the city : reflections on urban unrest / Luis del Romero Renau, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Romero Renau, Luis del, editor.

Series:

Urban development and infrastructure.

Urban Development and Infrastructure

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Urban.

Social conflict.

Urban policy.

City planning.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (205 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Publishers, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The international financial crisis is the confirmation of the collapsing major social pact of the twentieth century: the progressive dismantling of the Welfare State, degradation of living conditions in the city, the rise of urban ghettos in European cities, etc. In southern European countries, two social and political failures of great significance have emerged: the failure of the promise of continuous standard of living improvements, with the verification that younger generations will have worse living conditions than their parents; and secondly, the failure of the binomy political democracy - capitalism. This tension has meant suspending the regular democratic mechanisms in countries such as Ireland, Portugal and Greece, and it has also been expressed with a growing imposition of authority from post democratic institutions, making them practically free from democratic control. In this context, the urban conflict becomes the center of political, academic and public debates, especially after the new cycle of protests started in 2011, with the global movement of the indignant to occupy the Arab Spring. The novelty is that this cycle of protests becomes almost global, and is no longer centered in the workplace as it traditionally occurred, but in the areas of social reproduction: housing, public space, education, health or environment are some of the reasons for protest. This book stands at the center for the analysis of urban conflicts, the set of protests taking place in the city to contest the way it is planned, governed, managed, imagined and represented. Therefore, the aim is to understand the conflict as a social phenomenon; it devotes full attention \ to analyze the genesis, evolution and resolution by consensus or not of a wide range of cases of conflict. The starting point is the consideration of urban conflict as a positive and necessary scenario for communication between urban actors at a time or situation where there is no such communication. The book is intended mainly from a multidisciplinary and multicultural perspective to reflect and understand how and why territorial conflicts arise in the city and its principal expression of protest.

Contents:

CONFLICTS IN THE CITY REFLECTIONS ON URBAN UNREST ; CONFLICTS IN THE CITY REFLECTIONS ON URBAN UNREST ; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; CONTENTS ; INTRODUCTION ; ABSTRACT ; URBAN CONFLICTS IN THE CAPITALIST CITY ; REFERENCES ; PART ONE THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES FOR THE RESEARCH OF CONTENTIOUS URBAN POLITICS ; Chapter 1 CONCEPTUALIZING URBAN CONFLICTS ; ABSTRACT ; WHAT IS AN URBAN CONFLICT? ; THE SPATIALITY OF CONFLICTS ; URBAN PLANNING AND URBAN UNREST ; SOCIAL MOVEMENTS IN URBAN CONFLICTS; REFERENCES

Chapter 2 NEW APPROACHES IN URBAN CONFLICT ANALYSIS ABSTRACT ; INTRODUCTION ; ACQUISITION OF DATA ON CONFLICT ACTIVITY ; Conflict Activity and Newspapers ; Limitations and Benefits ; THE NEWSPAPER LA PRESSE ; Data Collection Methodology ; FORMALIZATION OF A FIELD OF RESEARCH AND SYSTEMATIZATION OF THE ANALYSIS OF CONFLICTUAL DECISION-MAKING PROCESSES: THE STRUCTURING OF THE DATA ; Modelling of the Conflictual Decision-Making Processes and Creation of a Relational Database ; Challenges of the Design ; Territorial Decision-Making in a Conflict Situation: Conceptual Proposal

Chapter 4 CLASS WARFARE OUTSIDE AN INSIDE URBAN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: HOW THE UPPER MIDDLE CLASS USED THE "RIGHT TO THE CITY" ABSTRACT ; INTRODUCTION: THE THEORETICAL AMBIGUITIES OF THE "RIGHT TO THE CITY" ; WHAT THE RIGHT TO THE CITY-BASED MOVEMENTS WERE REACTING TO: URBAN PLANNING ENCOURAGING THE INITIALIZATION OF A SELF-MANAGED AND PROFITABLE ESTATE PROPERTY MARKET; From Political Necessities to Economic Support: The Evolution of Urban Policies between 1789 and 1970 ; The Eastern Planning in the Eighties: A Neoliberal Turn

HOW THE URBAN SOCIAL MOVEMENTS WORKED: DIVERGENT INTERPRETATIONS OF THE RIGHT TO THE CITY RESULTING FROM AN "IRON LAW OF OLIGARCHY"

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-63483-914-5